Komikazee's MMA Smackdown #13

by: DarthMolen 1 year, 10 months, 5 days, 7 hours, 5 minutes ago 0

MMA Smackdown has all the news, rumors, and reviews that you have come to expect. Zach Arnold from FightOpinion helps me co-host the show while Derek Alfonso is on vacation. We also have ex-UFC Lions Den fighter Alex Andrade on the show and a "Best-of" archived interview with Ben Rothwell.

Komikazee's MMA Smackdown #13

News

Chuck Liddell Loopy on a Texas show

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=6870
http://fightstalker.com/2007/03/02/617/
Too much Nyquil
Supposedly had Pneumonia
Good that it happened now instead of later. Could have landed on Sportscenter.

IFL signs International distribution deal with Alfred Haber Distributions, Inc.

for both IFL Fight Night and IFL Battlegrounds, their new reality series.

PRIDE cancels April 28th show

Possible backlash from the Fishman debacle

Rumors

Ed Fishman suing PRIDE for breach of contract?

http://www.fightopinion.com/2007/03/02/source-ed-fishman-taking-legal-action-against-pride/
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=6872
http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3536&zoneid=2
PRIDE offered to buy out contract but Fishman wants more and is possibly suing

PRIDE still on market

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/gryphonjapan/20070305

Sakakibara: PRIDE like daughter, not child. Looking for suitor.

1 million plus for Silvia vs. Couture PPV (possible)

Review

UFC 68

Was this a better card than PRIDE 33?
General overall feelings

Jason Lambert (5.10~205~23-6-0) VS. Renato Sobral (6.1~205~27-7-0)

Renato getting exposed?
Sloppy knees are "for the lose"
Live and Learn: When throwing knees, don't drop your hands
Ken Shamrock Syndrome? (not enough alpha males to push him around during training)
Jason Lambert is darn strong
Good rebound after his Rashad loss
Is Renato done in the UFC?

Chris Lytle (5.11~170~32-13-5) VS. Matt Hughes (5.9~169~43-5-0)

Chris was way overmatched the whole time
Matt went back to the basics that made him champion
Still painfully woeful when it comes to submission attempts
Not enough done to advance the side mount IMHO.

Rich Franklin (6.1~185~23-2-0) VS. Jason MacDonald (6.3~185~19-8-0)

Jason Didn't abandon his gameplan when he needed to.
Refused to stand up and bang even when his shoots weren't working
Rich looked the best of all the ex-champions
Great all-around game from Rich
Welcome back "Ace"

Drew McFedries (6.0~185~5-2-0) VS. Martin Kampmann (6.0~185~12-1-0)

Drew can really hit hard
Needs more work on the ground
Martin was overclassed in the stand-up but put on a clinic when it hit the ground

Tim Sylvia (6.8~255~25-3-0) VS. Randy Couture (6.2~220~15-8-0)

The mind games got to Tim
He had no answer after his jabs wouldn't work for him
Randy gave a clinic on how to engineer a championship run from gameplanning alone
Nothing revolutionary from Randy
Champion at 43